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Watch every episode of Star Trek on Hulu for free until the end of the month
In a blog post on Hulu’s official blog, the site announced that they would be making every episode of Star Trek available for free until the end of March.
This comes around two months in advance of the release of J.J. Abrams highly anticipated Star Trek Into Darkness, and is [...]
Read More »Marvel is giving away over 700 first-issue comics right now, for free!
As part of a promotion that Marvel announced at the ongoing SXSW festival in Austin, over 700 first-issue comics are now free to download from now until 11PM ET on March 12th. That’s a lot of free comics!
All you need to do is download the ComiXology Comics app, which [...]
Read More »You can watch the premiere of ‘House of Cards’ on Netflix for free, even without a paid account
Netflix has released their original series, ‘House of Cards’. To push their second original series, the company wants as many people as possible to watch it. What better way than to make the premiere episode available for anyone to watch, at no cost?
(Note: This is only available in countries [...]
Read More »40 universities are going to offer full credit online courses for free this spring
A new initiative hopes to help people realize the value of an online education, without the financial risk. How do they plan to do this? By offering full credit courses that can lead to master-level degrees. For free.
The initiative is called MOOC2Degree (where MOOC stands for massive open online [...]
Read More »Kim Dotcom’s ‘Mega’ file locker service will give you 50GB of free cloud storage
Looks like Kim Dotcom is definitely going through with launching his latest file sharing service Mega, despite its striking similarities to the ill-fate Megaupload. It’s also launching soon — like this Saturday kind of soon.
Dotcom also recently revealed through Twitter that the service will be going big right away [...]
Read More »Online digital library JSTOR now offering free (but limited) access to everyone
JSTOR, an online digital library filled with quality academic papers, journals, and books, is now offering free access to everyone through their newly announced ‘Register & Read Program’.
Registering for an account to access JSTOR is known to be very expensive, and even then accounts are usually restricted to libraries [...]
Read More »Flickr Pro is going free for three months, grab an account now
Yahoo! and CEO Marissa Mayer have been on the right track lately, and they’re looking to continue that straight through this holiday season. It might be the holiday season, or it might be because of a certain other company’s recent stumbles – either way, it’s a pretty good deal.
Yahoo! [...]
Read More »Grab 30GB of free cloud storage from Glide!
Still haven’t decided upon a cloud storage service provider? Maybe Glide is more up your ally.
Glide OS is a web-based, HTML5 operating system developed by TransMedia. Essentially it is a web app that runs in all major browsers on any operating system, but TransMedia like to refer to it [...]
Read More »New Box.net promo gives free 25 GB of online cloud storage to new users
2012 has seen Box.net offer various different promotions to entice users to pick its cloud storage/backup service over the competition, namely Dropbox and Google Drive. If you have not yet jumped on any of the previous promotions, there is another Box.net promo on the horizon courtesy of a partnership between [...]
Read More »Tip: upgrade your existing Microsoft Skydrive account from 7GB to 25GB for free [Limited time]
Recently Microsoft unveiled a big change to its online file locker SkyDrive. They changed it from a website that you could upload files to (much like many other file lockers) to a multi-platform synchronization tool like Dropbox.
However, alongside these awesome changes comes a downside: they’re decreasing all SkyDrive accounts [...]
Read More »Dropquest 2012: Get an extra gigabyte of Dropbox space for free! [Ends June 2!]
Everyone knows and loves Dropbox, the free file backup and synchronization service. However, its free plan, which gives you only 2GB of free space, can be a bit small at times, and so they occasionally offer ways to get more space for free. For instance, there’s the introductory welcome-to-Dropbox tutorial, [...]